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Allan Cup
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The Allan Cup is the trophy awarded annually to the national senior amateur men’s ice hockey champions of Canada. It was donated by Sir Montague Allan of Ravenscrag, Montreal, the current champions are the Bentley Generals of Alberta, who captured the 2016 Allan Cup in Steinbach, Manitoba. In 1908, a split occurred in the competition of ice hockey in Canada, the top amateur teams left the Eastern Canada Amateur Hockey Association, which allowed professionals, to form the new Inter-Provincial Amateur Hockey Union, a purely amateur league. The trustees of the Stanley Cup decided that the Cup would be awarded to the professional ice champion, the Allan Cup was donated in early 1909 by Montreal businessman and Montreal Amateur Athletic Association president Sir H. Montagu Allan to be presented to the amateur champions of Canada. It was to be ruled like the Stanley Cup had, passed by champion to champion by league championship or challenge. Three trustees were named to administer the trophy, Sir Edward Clouston, President of the Bank of Montreal, Dr. H. B. Yates of McGill University, and Graham Drinkwater, four-time Stanley Cup champion. The trophy was presented to the Victoria Hockey Club of Montreal, members of the IPAHU. The first IPAHU champion, and by extension, first winner of the Cup was the Ottawa Cliffsides hockey club, after the season, the Cliffsides were defeated in the first-ever challenge by the Queen’s University hockey club of Kingston, Ontario. In the early years, trustees of the Cup quickly came to appreciate the difficulties of organizing a competition in so large a country. In 1914, at the suggestion of one of the trustees, Claude Robinson, one of the CAHAs first decisions, in 1915, was to replace the challenge system with a series of national playoffs. Starting in 1920, the Allan Cup champion team would represent Canada in amateur play at the Olympics and this was discontinued in the 1960s with the introduction of the Canadian national team. In 1928 the trustees turned over responsibility for the Cup to the CAHA, by 1951, many senior teams had become semi-professional or professional. In 1951, the CAHA set up a league of competition from the semi-pro. The leagues would no longer compete for the Allan Cup, the Allan Cup would be competed for on a more purely amateur basis from teams in smaller centres of Canada. The major league concept broke up by 1953, and the Alexander Cup competition was retired after 1954, since 1984 the Allan Cup has been competed for by teams in the Senior AAA category. Although interest in ice hockey has diminished over its history. The Cup championship is determined in a tournament held in the city or town of a host team. The Cup has been won by teams from every province and from the Yukon, the city with the most Allan Cup championships is Thunder Bay with 10, including four won as Port Arthur before the citys amalgamation

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Canada
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Canada is a country in the northern half of North America. Canadas border with the United States is the worlds longest binational land border, the majority of the country has a cold or severely cold winter climate, but southerly areas are warm in summer. Canada is sparsely populated, the majority of its territory being dominated by forest and tundra. It is highly urbanized with 82 per cent of the 35.15 million people concentrated in large and medium-sized cities, One third of the population lives in the three largest cities, Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Its capital is Ottawa, and other urban areas include Calgary, Edmonton, Quebec City, Winnipeg. Various aboriginal peoples had inhabited what is now Canada for thousands of years prior to European colonization. Pursuant to the British North America Act, on July 1,1867, the colonies of Canada, New Brunswick and this began an accretion of provinces and territories to the mostly self-governing Dominion to the present ten provinces and three territories forming modern Canada. With the Constitution Act 1982, Canada took over authority, removing the last remaining ties of legal dependence on the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Canada is a parliamentary democracy and a constitutional monarchy, with Queen Elizabeth II being the head of state. The country is officially bilingual at the federal level and it is one of the worlds most ethnically diverse and multicultural nations, the product of large-scale immigration from many other countries. Its advanced economy is the eleventh largest in the world, relying chiefly upon its abundant natural resources, Canadas long and complex relationship with the United States has had a significant impact on its economy and culture. Canada is a country and has the tenth highest nominal per capita income globally as well as the ninth highest ranking in the Human Development Index. It ranks among the highest in international measurements of government transparency, civil liberties, quality of life, economic freedom, Canada is an influential nation in the world, primarily due to its inclusive values, years of prosperity and stability, stable economy, and efficient military. While a variety of theories have been postulated for the origins of Canada. In 1535, indigenous inhabitants of the present-day Quebec City region used the word to direct French explorer Jacques Cartier to the village of Stadacona, from the 16th to the early 18th century Canada referred to the part of New France that lay along the St. Lawrence River. In 1791, the area became two British colonies called Upper Canada and Lower Canada collectively named The Canadas, until their union as the British Province of Canada in 1841. Upon Confederation in 1867, Canada was adopted as the name for the new country at the London Conference. The transition away from the use of Dominion was formally reflected in 1982 with the passage of the Canada Act, later that year, the name of national holiday was changed from Dominion Day to Canada Day

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Trail, British Columbia
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Trail is a city in the West Kootenay region of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It was named after the Dewdney Trail, which passed through the area, Trail has an area of 34.78 square kilometres. The city is located on banks of the Columbia River, approximately 10 km north of the United States border. This section of the Columbia River valley is located between the Monashee Mountains to the west and the Selkirk Mountains to the east. The Columbia flows directly north-south from Castlegar, turns east near downtown Trail, and then meets the Canada–United States border at Waneta, Summer climate in Trail is generally hot and dry with moderately cool nights. Temperatures often exceed 35 °C during summer afternoons, average 29 °C, thunderstorms are common during the late-Spring and Summer season, often moving into the valley from the south. The fall months brings dense river fog, especially during the overnight and morning hours, winters are mild to cold with periods of moderate snowfall. Nearby villages such as Warfield and Fruitvale often receive greater amounts of snow due to higher elevation, the Monashee Mountains are the first major mountain range east the Coastal Mountains to intercept moisture laden westerly flow from the Pacific Ocean. Vegetation in the Trail area, although fairly lush, is drier than other areas with a more westerly aspect. According to Statistics Canada, Trails population was 7,320 during the Canada 2001 Census, the city is also noted for its large Italian community. There are 1,385 people in Trail with Italian ancestry. Caucasian, 91% Aboriginal, 4% Chinese, 2% South Asian,1. 2% Black,1. 8% Trail is the location of the office of the Kootenay Boundary Regional District. Trail is part of School District 20 Kootenay-Columbia and schools in the town include, the strategies selected to achieve the goals are a blend of research, best practice, and innovative thinking. The district has implemented numerous strategies to support schools in improving student learning, most schools have comprehensive, innovative and research-based strategies to meet the goals. In 2007, the J. Lloyd Crowe Secondary School Replacement program started the construction of a new facility in Trail to replace the school that was built in the late 1950s. The new facility opened in September 2009, Trail’s statistics differ sharply from that of the province in the percentage of the population aged 45–64 with a trades certificate or diploma, Trail—26%, compared to BC—14%. This is directly attributable to Teck Cominco and the diversified mining, the percentage of this age group with a university level education is also very different, Trail—12%, compared to BC—22%. The general picture is a working population heavily geared to the trades, employing approximately 1,800 people, Teck Resources is the region’s largest employer

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Chatham Maroons (IHL)
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The Chatham Maroons are a defunct Canadian semi-professional and amateur senior ice hockey team. The team played in the City of Chatham, Ontario, Canada, in 1950, the Chatham Maroons won the International Hockey Leagues Turner Cup as playoff champions by defeating the Sarnia Sailors 4-games-to-3. This would be the Maroons only professional championship, the Chatham Maroons were the winners of the 1960 Allan Cup, emblematic of the top senior hockey team in all of Canada. The same year the club played couple of friendlies in Moscow with the team of the Soviet clubs where they won the first meeting 5,3. The Maroons defeated the Trail Smoke Eaters 4-games-to-none with one tie to clinch the championship, the winner of the award earned the right, as the countrys top amateur team, to compete for Canada at the Ice Hockey World Championships a season after winning. The Maroons opted out and were replaced by Trail, who won the Gold Medal, International Hockey League OHA Senior A Hockey League Allan Cup

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Amherst Ramblers
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The Amherst Ramblers are a Junior A Hockey League team based in Amherst, Nova Scotia. The team is a member of the Maritime Hockey League and are in the Bent Division, all home games are played out of the 2,500 seat Amherst Stadium. The season usually runs from mid-September to early March every year, the Amherst Ramblers were founded in 1966 as the Berwick Shell Junior Bruins, and were founding members of the Metro Valley Junior Hockey League. The league, then a junior B league, was renamed the Maritime Junior A Hockey League. In 1967 the Bruins were relocated to Amherst and renamed the Amherst Ramblers, the Ramblers have been known by two different names since moving to Amherst. Between 1994 and 1998 the team was known as the Moosheads, the logo consisted of a large letter A and the moose from Moosehead beer - similar in design to the current Halifax Mooseheads logo. The Ramblers hosted the Centennial Cup in 1993, Bill Riley Mal Davis Joey MacDonald Andrew Sweetland Bill Chapman Mark Lee List of ice hockey teams in Nova Scotia http, //www. amherstramblers. com/ http, //www. themhl. ca/